Sowing seeds indoors in coir plugs
Tonight we sowed tomatoes, chillies, peppers, squash and courgettes in coir plugs under lights indoors.
How to plant potatoes in 30L pots for great yields
Spring bed preparation
How to start parsnip seeds in toilet rolls
Mid March Allotment Update
It’s March; what are we sowing?
peas Today we made a few more sowings of early crops. In an earlier post we discussed our planting timeframes. Our main sowing spree is a good few weeks off, but we do have some things on the go. For crops to be sown now they need to be quite hardy to resist the low overnight temperatures which can be below zero celcius even in the greenhouse. We don’t have heat in the greenhouse.
Weeds – Dock
Dock leaf, or Rumex obtusifolius, commonly known as bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, bluntleaf dock, dock leaf or butter dock, is a perennial weed that grows on waste ground. It is common-place in gardens and roadside verges and grows well in vegetable gardens with any chance to establish. Here we discuss this weed and it’s management.
Keeping safe on allotments
Your allotment, or garden, may be a place to enjoy a peaceful hobby and relax, but like all things it does have some hidden dangers.
Accidents do happen. Our ground alone has seen three heart-attacks (one fatal), someone falling through their greenhouse and an injury caused by a petrol strimmer. On another groud we heard of a gardener who jerry-rigged his rotovator controls and then fell over, with the machine running over his leg. Even a seemingly innocent insect bite can lead to infection.
So now you are suitably alarmed… let’s see what we can do to make you allotment a safer place.
Planting garlic: starting cloves in modules
Today we discuss how we start out garlic in modules in a cold greenhouse in February for transplanting in Spring.
Save Britain’s Hedgehogs
Although the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) is stable in many other part Europe, it is in decline in Britain. What can you do to help our spikey little friends?